Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200902278 - Employee Is Killed When Run over by Dozer

Accident Summary Nr: 200902278 -- Report ID: 0418400 -- Event Date: 11/22/2008
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
310991815	11/24/2008	1611	237310	Apac-Southeast, Inc., Ballenger Paving Division

Abstract: On November 22, 2008, Employee #1, an operator of a John Deere 650J Track Dozer with a front blade attachment, was working at a concrete and aggregate batch yard, located adjacent to active public vehicular traffic lanes, in a highway work zone construction project. Witnesses saw the dozer traveling in reverse, towards the highway, without an operator. Employee #1 had apparently been operating the dozer, but investigators could not determine how or why he dismounted the dozer. Witnesses last saw Employee #1 running along the right side of the moving dozer, making several attempts to remount it. Just before the dozer hit a concrete traffic barricade (traffic delineator device) that separated the batch yard from the highway, Employee #1 apparently slipped and was run over by the right-side dozer track. The dozer climbed the barricade and came to rest on top of it. Employee #1 was killed in the accident.

Keywords: EQUIPMENT OPERATOR, SLIP, CONSTRUCTION, BULLDOZER, RUN OVER

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Highway, road, street		Alteration or rehabilitation		$20,000,000 and over			X

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	310991815			Fatality	Fracture	Grader, dozer and scraper operators	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Site grading and rock removal Fatality Cause: Crushed/run-over/trapped of operator by operating

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